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by tralarpa 7y ago
The authors wrote that they gave 240 g fresh blueberries containing 253 mg anthocyanins. That would be 105mg anthocyanins per 100g (provided that the authors didn't actually mean 253mg/100g). According to this table, that's t
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by tralarpa 7y ago
You are 1900 years late with your complaint :) In the first decades after the death of Jesus of Nazareth, the cross was not widely used as a symbol among Christians. Who wanted to be reminded of the humiliation of God's own son on the
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by tralarpa 7y ago
Yes. There is a section in one of his books where he wrote that he added some feature in an ad-hoc way just because of a request from a colleague. Unfortunately, as I have already written in another comment some months ago, C++ was the wron
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by tralarpa 7y ago
The second link looks very nice. Thanks.
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People should travel (and live!) more abroad for a while. As you wrote, many seem to be surprised that the people living in Asia, Africa, etc. are humans too (in the sense of: people with history, dreams, expectations on life, etc.)
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Actually, understanding seems to be affected, too! See: https://www.cambridge.org/core/journals/journal-of-child-lan...
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Are you Danish? (your account name looks rather Dutch) I always wanted to know whether it's true what I heard some years ago: a friend told me that older Danish people are complaining that the younger Danish are harder to understand be
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by tralarpa 7y ago
Thanks for the link to the 2015 paper. I read the original paper around 2013 and didn't actively look for followup papers in the last years.
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> credited for the Netherlands' low infant mortality rate Wasn't Netherlands birth mortality rate actually higher when compared to neighbor countries because of the tradition of giving birth at home (which is not dangerous in
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by tralarpa 7y ago
I am wondering what has happened (or is currently happening) to this project: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ur1Z72_LyTM
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by tralarpa 8y ago
My personal hero, at least when it comes to computer science. Always insisting on methodical rigour and practical applicability at the same time. So many computer scientists have been influenced by his work. Check his homepage (and the ETH
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To the downvoter who didn't get the joke: Didn't you notice that the author's examples are exactly those mistakes that a compiler could find? Checklists and unit tests and TDD are useful. But how about first using the right t
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> [...] imagine having them in an automated check list. Buffer overruns, off-by-one errors, uninitialised variables. Already compilers warn you if there's a chance you used "=" when you meant "==". (If only JavaS
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by tralarpa 8y ago
Your posting is already 13 hours old but I hope you still see this message :) First of all, being sometimes involved in teaching CS to people, I like your website. You have obviously spent a lot of time on the question of how to teach peopl
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by tralarpa 8y ago
You have noticed a small bug in your data processing script and now you have to redo all your plots for your thesis? latex+gnuplot scripts+makefile, and a few seconds later you have a new pdf.
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There is something I don't understand. They say that the winner used Speedment. If I understood the example on github correctly, Speedment also uses SQL internally. So, why is the same query over JDBC so much slower than with Speedment
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I am not a native speaker and always eager to improve. I understood the "then" as "at that time (in the past)". Is that wrong?
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To teach programming, many universities structure their courses "bottom-up": 1. Intro: learning how to implement an algorithm 2. Algorithms+datastructures: learning about existing algorithms/datastructures and how to design y
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by tralarpa 8y ago
> This often trips up people who don't know how big O works They didn't ask for an algorithm with linear complexity. They explicitly asked for a solution "in one pass". That's highly misleading. Edit (after the r
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> I have to assume they reached that solution after exhausting every other option I assume that the 68000 was so powerful for its price (probably much cheaper than the existing mainframe CPUs) that it made this a viable solution. Or mayb
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By the way, an interesting story: When Sun (?) wanted to implement their Unix with paging on the 68000 they had a problem: If you access a memory page that has been swapped out to disk, the OS has to (1) load the page from disk to RAM and (
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by tralarpa 8y ago
Hmm, I don't know...These sound like good advices to do your job well and might even lead to happiness (which is good of course). But if your goal is to have a successful career maybe this would be more useful: Word hard on the right t
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> are a lot more convenient to navigate though It sounds indeed convenient for large cities where millions of people travel daily from one end of the city to the other. But does it matter for smaller cities (<200,000)? I have lived my
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by tralarpa 8y ago
If you are interested in logic programming languages (like Prolog) and in functional programming languages (like Haskell), you should definitely take a look at the Curry language. For people who know Haskell, such a type definition should
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I don't think it's really their fault. There are not many funding sources and those few that exist are usually coming from big players (companies, governments, etc.), so you are basically forced to pick a side if you want to do re
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I don't say those people are stupid. But if you look at the publications it's very obvious that they are not trained in the same way as other scientists. The jumping to conclusions, the application of methods without knowing their
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> 60% of published papers in life sciences turns out to be rubbish Research in life science: - Very difficult to conduct repeatable experiments of sufficient size - Lot of pressure because of lack of funding (e.g. hard to get money throu
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(The last time I worked on a Prolog program was 20 years ago. It had only around 4000 lines, so take the following with a grain of salt.) For me, a work day in Prolog looked like this: Write your idea down in 1 hour and then spend the remai
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Writing a small roguelike is the task that I use to learn/test new languages. Mine is a very simple one: you can just move the player and open doors and there are some monsters running around. But it uses bitmap graphics and things are
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> anyone with severe myopia will tell you the same thing I doubt that. Yes, small children tend to have high ciliary muscle tone, resulting in errors of 0.7D in average. That's well known and that's the reason for cycloplegic r

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